Newton on geometric curves. Diagram illustrating how to generate a curve based on the motion of spheres along existing curves. Examples of such curves are cycloids,epicycloids,hypocycloids,trochoids,and involutes. This diagram,part of work on the motion of bodies,demonstrates proposition 49,theorem 17,in book 1 of 'Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica' (1686) by English physicist and mathematician Isaac Newton (1642-1727). This version is from the second edition (1713) of 'Principia' | |
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